RE-OPENING OCTOBER 27
The Virgin Islands
ChilDren's Museum
What Will You Discover Today?
Open 10 am to 5 pm Tuesday - Saturday
Sunday 11am to 4 pm
Closed Mondays
Last admission 30 minutes before closing
Honoring the Legacy of
Dolly Parton 📚💕
Global icon, singer, and humanitarian Dolly Parton (1946–2026) dedicated her life to spreading joy—and nowhere was that love felt more deeply than through her Imagination Library.
Here in the USVI, the Virgin Islands Children’s Museum and CFVI are proud to carry her legacy forward. We remain committed to delivering free, high-quality books to local children throughout the territory every single month.
Enroll your child today in memory of Dolly, and help us keep the magic of reading growing across our islands.
"If you can read, you can learn to do anything, be anything, and go anywhere." — Dolly Parton
The Virgin Islands Children's Museum Proudly Presents Our Signature Literacy Program
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program administered by the VICM on all islands in the US Virgin Islands Territory that mails free, high-quality, age-appropriate books to children from birth until they begin school, age 5, no matter their family’s income. The VICM raises funds to pay for books for children throughout the territory to build their home libraries.
All Usvi full time resident children under the age of 5 are eligible to register and registration is free!
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Participating children receive one book per month delivered to their mailing address from birth to their 5th birthday.
Made possible by:
Literacy is a gift that lasts a lifetime.
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The Community Foundation of the Virgin Islands has generously committed to support this expanding program, will you?
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Please make your donation today.
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one book per child per month
is just $3.07
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one years worth of books per child is just $36.84
5 years worth of books per child is just $184.20
Since launching in 1995, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library has become the preeminent early childhood book-gifting program in the world. The Imagination Library mails more than 2 million high-quality, age-appropriate books each month to enrolled children from birth to age five. Dolly envisioned creating a lifelong love of reading and inspiring children to dream more, learn more, care more and be more.
The impact of the program has been widely researched and results suggest positive increases in key early childhood literacy metrics.
After the USVI territory was impacted by 2 category 5 hurricanes and the VICM was operating as a mobile museum, looking for ways to support children and families despite being a museum without walls, our friends at Scoops and Brew brought the DPIL concept to our attention. The VICM became the local DPIL affiliate in 2018 and the program continues to grow and inspire young minds. As of August 2026, the VICM with the help of grants, fundraising efforts, and DPIL sponsors have gifted
78,224 books to children through the USVI!
“The single most significant factor influencing a child’s early educational success is an introduction to books and being read to at home prior to beginning school.” -National Commission on Reading